My very first song. As I'm sure it was for many of us here.
How the fuck am I supposed to get anything done today
It all fits:
- Him releasing "Blackstar" almost 2 years after the "Next Day" (not waiting 10+ years like he did with "Reality")
- The main themes in the album: Death, decadence, violence.
- The "Lazarus" video (not just the obvious, also the fact that he rushed the release of a second vid)
- Him not wanting to tour (i know that he decided this before knowing he was sick, but i bet the disease was striking at the time)
For the first couple of hours, I was just stunned. Couldn't feel anything. Now I cannot stop crying.
I think Col. Chris Hadfield (who recorded Space Oddity in space, if you remember) said it best:
"Ashes to ashes, dust to stardust. Your brilliance inspired us all. Goodbye Starman."
Brian Eno says they were considering revisiting Outside and taking it somewhere new as it fell through the cracks before he died.
http://m.pitchfork.com/news/62839-br...ogether-again/
This was my intro to Bowie when I was a kid.
He and Mick are together again now, Starmen in the sky.
Walked 'round to a few of the record stores near my workplace on break just now. One was playing Fame, the other Subterraneans. Guy behind the counter at the last one and I just shared a look and a nod. His eyes were red.
I'm crushed... Woke up and read the news, and haven't been able to do anything with myself all morning.
My four year old loves his music, too, and he's home with me today. I'm trying not to be a bawling mess in front of him. He sat quietly with me and listened to all of Blackstar.
Sad day.
Now he can reunite The Spiders from Mars with Mick and Trevor up there (with Bonzo filling in on drums).
Say and think what you want about Marilyn Manson but these words he gave were an awesome AWESOME read:
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/ne...#ixzz3wxX6O9NA
From one of his childhood friends and collaborator in Peter Frampton: https://twitter.com/peterframpton/st...87911207280640
Lazarus is quite prophetic.
You're free blue bird....
Prophetic implies he didn't know about it, unless he did write before he was diagnosed. I have no idea. While keeping the issue personal, it wouldn't surprise me if he felt comfortable expressing it through his music, I mean, that's part of what being an artist is all about.
Birds in art, flying free, the references instantly remind me of Shelley's "To a Skylark."
We look before and after,
And pine for what is not:
Our sincerest laughter
With some pain is fraught;
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Yet if we could scorn
Hate, and pride, and fear;
If we were things born
Not to shed a tear,
I know not how thy joy we ever should come near.
Better than all measures
Of delightful sound,
Better than all treasures
That in books are found,
Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground!
Teach me half the gladness
That thy brain must know,
Such harmonious madness
From my lips would flow
The world should listen then, as I am listening now.
Last edited by allegro; 01-11-2016 at 03:45 PM.
He absolutely knew about it. This album was carefully planned alongside his death http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/cele...ed-finale.html
I'm really amazed at the level he went with this. I can't think of many people who have coordinated art with their own death that went to this extent.
And it wasn't just everything surrounding the album. It seems he had his own private little versions that unfolded with is friends. Ex, this instance with Brian Eno: http://www.nytimes.com/live/david-bo...aying-goodbye/
I'm honestly not sad. I'm too amazed at what he just pulled off. I'm sure there will be more realizations like the 2 I posted above.
@halloween wasn't saying he didn't know about it, she was pointing out to Dra that "prophetic" means somebody DIDN'T know about it, and longtime collaborator (like, from the friggin' SIXTIES) Tony Visconti today said on Facebook that Bowie made this album as a parting gift.
A Belgian theater director who worked with Bowie for Lazarus said Bowie had liver cancer. "I saw a man fighting. He fought like a lion and kept working through it all. I had incredible respect for that."
Evidently, Eno was NOT in his "closest circle." He probably just didn't want people dwelling on it.Bowie, who turned 69 Friday, kept his cancer private and only his closest circle knew.
Last edited by allegro; 01-11-2016 at 04:40 PM.
Yes, but 800 articles are doing that, I provided a direct quote. A bunch of journalists are reading all kinds of extra crap into this, one author in the Bowie thread swears Bowie deliberately died on a Monday so that people in the U.K. be the first to find out that he died. Wtf.
Singalong at the Bowie mural in Brixton last night: https://twitter.com/shreenas/status/686628304871387136
My favorite performance of David Bowie: